Ian H Mackay

by AnneS · 15/09/2022

About Ian H Mackay

Ian Mackay spent his working career as a university lecturer in property economics and portfolio management in South Africa and Canada. After retirement he volunteered in flag protocol for the Vancouver 2010 & London 2012 Olympic Games, and the Pan American Games in Toronto in 2015. He travels the globe extensively with his wife Diane, and they still enjoy tent camping & hiking in the wilderness. He has published a number of non-fiction books on Travelling, Green Value, the history of his Scottish ancestral homestead, and WW II. During the Covid-19 to Covid-22 pandemic he became intrigued by the pre-colonial history of prolific elephant hunter and explorer Henry Hartley (1815-1876) and the character of this 1820 English settler and southern African pioneer